Sentence examples for downhill rate from inspiring English sources
Mets only reimburse for gas at a downhill rate.
The potshots continued: Will have to drive carefully on trip; Mets only reimburse for gas at a downhill rate.
After days of exceptionally heavy rain that December, the saturated ground began to move, not all at once as in a mudslide but slowly downhill at a rate of about 13 feet per hour.
Witnesses reported that the brakes were smoking before the crash, as the bus rolled downhill at "a high rate of speed," said Sgt. Andrew Thompson, with the California Highway Patrol.
That raises the question: If the situation in the world's forests were to start going downhill at a faster rate, would we even know it in a timely way?
The strains of "You'll Never Walk Alone" swirled around Anfield long after the music stopped in an attempt to create the atmosphere that has been the catalyst for so many European glory nights - but once the final note of the old anthem faded away it was all downhill at an alarming rate.
Nature knows what she's doing, making his eyesight go downhill at the same rate as your everything else.
Evolution can occur locally within a system by moving thermodynamically "uphill" (building the complex from simpler precursors) in one subsystem (e.g., a population of organisms) as long as an interlocking part of the system (e.g., the Sun) moves thermodynamically "downhill" at a significantly faster rate and magnitude than evolution moves uphill.
When bacteria reach the optimal growth phenotype, they can only escape phage by adapting downhill in terms of growth rate.
As in the single-peak landscape example shown in Figure 2, the fitness benefit of escaping phage can counterbalance the fitness cost of moving downhill in terms of growth rate, allowing valleys to be traversed.
Host mutants could temporarily reduce their susceptibility to phage predation, to an extent that permitted bacterial subpopulations to adapt downhill in terms of growth rate and cross valleys in the adaptive landscape.
